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Dutch PM admonishes cabinet member for comments on Moroccans

September 27, 2024
Schoof in New York Photo: ANP/AFP CHARLY TRIBALLEAU

Prime minister Dick Schoof has admonished a member of his cabinet from the far-right PVV party for supporting its illegal call for ‘fewer Moroccans’ in the Netherlands.

Schoof, who is at a UN General Assembly meeting in New York, told the AD that it was unacceptable for a cabinet member to express this view.

MP Geert Wilders, head of the PVV, was found guilty of group insult and has a criminal record for leading a local campaign meeting to cheer for ‘fewer Moroccans’ in 2014.

In a televised chat show earlier this week, junior transport minister Chris Jansen said that he privately supported the illegal call.

But Schoof said that it was completely unacceptable for him to air this private opinion in public, given his publicly-funded role. “As a public representative, you do not have any private opinions,” he reportedly told AD. “There have been three parliamentary briefings about this, and I’m done with it. Chris Jansen knows this too, he won’t do it again, and he agreed to this quickly in a telephone call. I did not give him any room to have any other opinion.”

“You don’t say these kinds of things and Wilders has been found criminally guilty for them.”

The public dressing-down has been seen by some political observers as a further sign of tension between the “business” cabinet and the four parties in the right-wing coalition. Schoof also called for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah at the UN meeting, adding that this was not agreed with the coalition.

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